Core i9-12900K and 5950X share a world record

As it turns out, Intel's new Core i9-12900K exactly equaled the world record of 15,664 points in Cinebench R20 previously held by AMD's Ryzen 9 5950X. As shared on Facebook, Splave, the world's # 1 overclocker, recorded the highest benchmark score from an Alder Lake chip to date. In practice, this is a draw with that recorded by the Ryzen 9 5950X almost a year ago and which also represents the highest achieved by a Ryzen 5000 CPU so far.

Photo Credit: HWBot Il the fact that both CPUs managed to get exactly the same score is quite surprising. The chances of this happening are incredibly slim, especially considering the fact that the Intel Core i9-12900K runs on a completely different architecture than the Ryzen 5000 series, given its hybrid design that combines high-performance cores and high-efficiency cores. . In addition, the Intel chip also leverages DDR5 instead of DDR4 memory, which further differentiates the two platforms.

The extraordinary world record was achieved, as always, with liquid nitrogen cooling on both systems. The Core i9-12900K ran at 6.9GHz on its P cores at a voltage of 1.58V. The E cores were also overclocked, but at 5.4GHz and 1.57V voltage. The memory used on the Intel system was 16GB, in particular they were TeamGroup DDR5 modules operating at 6.565MHz with timings of 30-37-37-57 on an AsRock Z690 Aqua OC motherboard.

Photo Credit : HWBot As for the Ryzen platform, the world record was achieved with a Ryzen 9 5950X overclocked to 6GHz on all 16 cores (at an unknown voltage). The memory used was 16GB on G.Skill DDR4 modules running at 4,000MHz with timings of 14-14-14-48, all installed in an Asrock X570 Aqua motherboard.